Women Had Quite A Part To Play in Ancient Sea Trade

Mandira Nayar in an article published in ‘The week’ magazine reveals fascinating ancient facts about how Mughal merchants, especially women and their contribution towards ship trading.

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Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s dargah (mausoleum) road  was a Yellow Bricked one that led Dorothy to Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, it is the sweet scent of crimson roses mixed with smoky incense. It would be seen as cold, black-flecked white floor dotted with masked devotees waiting for redemption...

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Herodotus’s Egyptian Ship Discovered in Sunken City

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote extensively about a ship during his travels to Egypt in 450BC. Now that mysterious Egyptian ship has been unearthed in a sunken city, reports the Dailystar.co.uk.

About the Lost Ship

“It wasn’t until we discovered this wreck that we realized Herodotus was right”, said Damian Robinson one of the explorers.

In his magnum-opus – Historia – he described how the barge used sails made of papyrus, had a mast made of acacia wood and used a rudder that passed...

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